Tom Shoval & Nancy Spielberg Discuss Gaza Hostage Film ‘A Letter To David’ & Why Berlinale Is Right Place For World Premiere
deadline.comDavid Cunio and his twin brother Eitan were at the Berlin Film Festival in 2013 as the stars of Israeli director Tom Shoval’s first feature Youth which world premiered to acclaim in Panorama.
The pair, who hail from the Nir Oz Kibbutz in southern Israel, played brothers who kidnap a young woman using a military service-issued rifle in an ill-advised scheme to raise funds to pay off family debts.
The story was pure fiction but the fraternal bond on the big screen was real. A decade later David Cunio was kidnapped in the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack with his wife SharonAloni Cunio and twin daughters from their home in Nir Oz, where around 180 of the some 400 residents were either killed or abducted that day.
His wife and children were released in November 2023, but close to 500 days later David Cunio has yet to be released, with the family clinging to the hope that he is still alive somewhere in Gaza.
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